Taken directly from the Overdrive website: Penguin library eBook update November 21st, 2011 Brianne Carlon Last week Penguin sent notice to OverDrive that it is reviewing terms for library lending of their eBooks. In the interim, OverDrive was instructed to suspend availability of new Penguin eBook titles from our library catalog and disable “Get for
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Picture it: the late 1990s and/or early 2000s: Me: ”I don’t borrow DVDs from Blockbuster, I just get them free from the library.” Friend: “What, really? The library has DVDs? FOR FREE??” When libraries started collecting videos, I was a kid and so I don’t know the impact that had on borrowing. But I do
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The Amazon Kindle does not currently support ebook lending from public libraries that subscribe to Overdrive. For the past several months, library staff has had to repeat this statement every time a Kindle user contacts us about borrowing ebooks. Yesterday’s announcement from Amazon and Overdrive is certainly cause for celebration as both companies indicated that
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With the announcement by OverDrive of HarperCollins’ new restrictions on the lending of HarperCollins’ e-book titles at the end of last week, the library world has been taking another longer look at e-books and the challenges that they confront us with. Already in the last week Trudi and Ann have commented on e-books and libraries,
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A few weeks ago I watched Eli Neiburger’s 2 part presentation entitled: Libraries at the Tipping Point – How eBooks Impact Libraries. The thrust of his argument? Libraries are screwed. But are they really? We can make our best guesses and depending on whether you are a half-full / half-empty type of person, the future
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Lately, I have noticed more and more people asking me about eBooks. Specifically, the perceived threat that they post to Libraries. The thinking seems to be, if people are getting information in eBooks, then Libraries – those fancy buildings created solely to house physical books – are therefore doomed. I have been finding the opposite,
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